When Picasso wrote the essay “Why I Became A Communist”, he attracted the attention of the sweatily paranoid J. Edgar Hoover — who subsequently ordered his spooks to amass as much intel as they could on the artist. These days, the FBI has unsealed all these files and — rather amazingly — put them online. Click here to see all 188 pages of the Picasso files. While you’re at it, check out the many other luminaries that the FBI kept its eye on, including Albert Einstein, Louis Armstrong, and Desi Arnez.

(Thanks to the J-Walk blog for this one!)